arkose got dropped from the repos as it was no longer compatible with newer kernels:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/arkose/+bug/1299904
Bare LXC is a poor substitute, as it only offers a ...

I'm trying to find a straightforward way to create a date-ordered slideshow from a directory that contains a mix of photos and videos (e.g. the output of a smartphone camera from a holiday). Ideally ...

So, I've setup a Ubuntu 12.04 server at home, and installed samba to share my files.
One of the folders is called photos.
These are pictures taken the last 15 years, and I have absolutely no control ...

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I’m looking for a tool with which I can easily organize/manage the video footage I have recorded. I don’t want to only tag the video clip files themselves, though; I would ...

Another question to do with my friend’s lack of internet access and requirement of me asking questions for him.
So, he has decided that he wishes to do lots of pixel art drawings, and we are looking ...

I used to have Windows 7 Enterprise. Until yesterday. I obviously switched to Ubuntu and the only thing I find difficult to live without is my old Freecell game. I tried some others, but they do not ...

How can I view PDF bleedboxes and trimboxes on Ubuntu, like I can in Adobe Acrobat Pro? I would like to do so without resorting to a Virtual Machine or WINE.
Example:
The green mark is the trimbox. ...

I have had problems with NVIDIA drivers for a while.
Now I got a problem: In additional drivers I get 331.113, as this link http://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/80533/en-us shows, it is ...

I am looking for any solution for my problem. I have SFTP access to client's server and I need some script or something else to watch after new files because they are added irregularly. I need this ...

I am looking for a DLP solution for both Ubuntu and Windows. I know that there are many DLP products for windows but I couldn't find one that support ubuntu as well. OpenDLP is not good enough for me, ...

Which is the best programme like LibreOffice Writer which has the option to use a Wacom pen tablet to draw in between the text in Ubuntu 14.04?
My main purpose is to take physics notes; I have tried ...

Many of the questions asking how to create an animated gif from a set of png images suggest to use a variant of ImageMagick's convert command:
convert -delay 2 -loop 0 *.png animated.gif
However, I ...

I would like to know if there is some software to check the computer working,
I mean is the CPU overloaded, is the temperature of motherboard ok, what processes are running etc?
Sometimes I hear the ...

I need a software that can fill online pdf forms, without downloading them. Evince does fill forms but only offline, and adobe reader works with firefox online but it is not Open source.
I am looking ...

I'd like to show some of my live actions in terminal, and their output to some people around the global. I could use tools like VNC on this. But since terminal data is way simpler than GUI, I wonder ...

I am trying to install any GnuPG GUI for easy encryption/decryption of text, and I feel like I am in bizarro world where nothing works at all. On Mac OS X, I use GPGTools and it works flawlessly, so I ...

I sometimes use / test software that cannot be found in the apt tree. The software comes from all over the internet. When executing the software I create an extra user for this particular software and ...

For an international congress I have been tasked with organising translations.
Speakers will host presentations in different languages.
The translating bit itself seemed to be resolved, but we would ...

I have installed Ubuntu 14.4 in a virtual server on my MS server 2008 box. It (the Linux) is one of several servers running in my local environment. I want to remotely connect to the server without ...